HomeMade Router Lift and Table with Fence

A while ago I had posted a blog on my Home Made Router lift. I have now finished the lift as well as the table that I'm using with it. The lift works better than I could have imagined. Bit changes are a snap and micro-adjustments are easy. I used to have to mess around under the table trying to adjust my router to the right height and the knob on the side of the router never worked right. The other thing that used to bother me was that when I used a conventional router table my bits were sometimes barely long enough. This lift totally fixes all those irritations and I'm very happy with it. If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll post more pictures of the lift itself. I want to put a small video of it in action, but I'm still figuring out how to use my video camera.

I have the table mounted on the end of my tablesaw. I built the frame of the table out of kiln dried 2×4. I jointed it. I tried to pick pieces that looked like they'd stay stable. For the surface of the table I just used melamine. I just cut out squares of with holes of various sizes to accommodate different size router bits. I put a 2 inch vacuum port to collect the dust and the front fence is adjustable back and forth by way of carriage bolts and wing nuts. The fence is clamped to my fence. In all it could be prettier, but I'm hoping to make some pretty things with it and it is quite accurate. Did I also mention cheap. Less than $40 for the whole thing. Router lift, fence and table.

I will probably add a leg at the end just for some extra support. Enjoy.